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Dan Brekke

Bio: Editor, writer, journalist, student of history. Chicago native, long-time resident of Berkeley, California.

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JUNE 27, 2012 10:40PM

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... What a beautiful place.

Was just thinking about whether there might be some interesting satellite pictures of the fires in Colorado. I'm sure there are. On my way to finding them, I encountered the shot above, which is a NASA mosaic of our planet taken this past January 4. See the really big version of the image here: Blue Marble .